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"Somebody with the control that Porcello has, you expect him to be able to throw the ball down," Zobrist said of the Tigers pitcher who entered the game having hit 1 of 334 batters. "And the fact that the ball was up near my face, I think it's cause for the umpires to do something in that situation."

And then the Rays had a message for the whole Tigers team, in a not-so-subtle pop-culture reference to Godfather-style revenge, even though they won't meet again this season unless it is in the playoffs.

"Just read (author) Mario Puzo, that's all, he'll give you all the answers," Maddon said. "That's how the family thing works. Just read it. There's many more opportunities to play good, hard baseball. And we will."

I can only assume that Madden is admitting that he's a big, gaping v****a.

Not that it means much, but the Indians will be in first place within the hour. Tigers should still put away this division with relative ease, but it's been more of a race than I think anyone other than Drayton Moore thought it'd be.

Someone just told me that Rajal Davis stole 3B when the catcher was lobbing the ball back to the pitcher. I've never seen that before.

It's really an amazingly smart move by Davis.
He noticed that the pitcher, when receiving the ball, turns his back to 3rd base.
As soon as the catcher started to throw the ball to the pitcher, Davis (who had a good secondary lead after the pitch) took off.
The pitcher caught the ball with his back to third, and was alerted by the 2nd baseman (or 1st baseman) too late to turn around and throw out Davis.
Rajai slid in quite easily.

It reminded me of Damon stealing second and then dashing off to third (because no one was covering) in the playoffs against the Phillies.
Just smart, heads-up baseball.

Much in the same way that fascism is always descending upon America but only ever landing in Europe, the Mets are always threatening to score but the opposing team is the one that usually ends up doing so.

I don't think that it's just the blue bloods not being sufficiently rowdy that holds hooliganism down at the Stadium. If I pay $120 for B+ seats, I don't want to be thrown out of the stadium in the fourth.

Every ####### time the ####### Twins play the ####### Yankees the Twins turn into a ####### bunch of stupid ####### Little League pussies who are too ####### chickenshit to actually win the ####### game.

Every ####### time the ####### Twins play the ####### Yankees the Twins turn into a ####### bunch of stupid ####### Little League pussies who are too ####### chickenshit to actually win the ####### game.

Totally, it is so ####### frustrating....

I should add: that rant was before that ####### pickoff. Unbelievable.

Replay showed that Byrd was safe, regardless of whether or not Montero held the ball.

Well, you can't really make that conclusion based on things that didn't happen. He actually catches the ball, he might get the tag down faster. Hey, it worked, but I still think it was a terrible send.

Well, you can't really make that conclusion based on things that didn't happen.

The replay I saw showed Byrd's feet sliding across home ahead of any possible tag---in fact, it appeared the ball popped away after Montero attempted to make a tag. I guess you could say it was a terrible send because there MIGHT have been a better throw, there MIGHT have been a better catch, or Byrd MIGHT have tripped coming around third... but I don't see how you can really make that conclusion based on things that didn't happen.